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Isaiah 21:16
For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
Isaiah 21:16 · World English Bible
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Isaiah 21:16 in other translations
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
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In context
13 The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
14 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
16 For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
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